DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. WRAGBY. 491

WORLABY, near Louth, formerly extra parochial, is a 6o persons: the Rev. James Foster B.A., B.C.L. of Durham, parish, 1 miles north-ea.c;t from Horncast!e, 8 south from rector of Authorpe, officiates here. The register is included Louth, and 6 south-west from Authorpe station on the East in that of Ruckland. The parish contains 858 acres of land Lincolnshire branch of the Great Northern railway, in the in one farm, which belongs to Mrs. Jas. Wood, of Westgate, East Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, hun­ Louth, who is lady of the manor, and is occupied by Mr. dred of Hill and Louth petty sessional division, union and Edward Cartwright; the rateable value is £780; the popu­ county court district. The chapel of St. Clement is a build­ lation in r88 r was 66. ing of stone and red brick, in the Early English style, con­ Letters through Louth, arrive at 9 a.m. The nearest money sisting of small chancel, a nave and vestry, south porch order & telegraph offices are at Horncastle & Louth and western bell turret containing one bell, and holds about The children of this place attend Farforth Board school Cartwright Edward, farmer, Worlaby house

WRAGBYis a small market town and parish, situated at PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. the junction of the Lincoln, Horncastle, Louth, Market H.asen -Miss Emily .Agnes Pickering, postmistress.--Letters ar­ and Bardney roads, with a station on the Lincoln and Louth rive from London & the South, via London, at 6.45 a.m. line of the Great Northern railway, 142 miles from London, & 4.50 p.m. General dispatch 6.20 p.m. Box closes at n miles north-east from Lincoln, 10 north-west from Horn­ 5-55 p.m.; extra stamp til16.r5 p.m castle, 8 south from Market H.asen and 15 south-west from WALL LETTER Box, Horncastle road, cleared at 5.25 p.m. Louth, in the East Lindsey division of the county, parts of week days & 3-55 p.m. sundays Lindsey, western division of the wapentake of ~WragL;oe, Wragby petty sessional division, union of Horncastle, county INSURANCE AGENT.-General Life & Fire, H. Mawer court district of Market Rasen, rural deanery of Wraggoe, CoUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE WRAGBY PETTY SESSIONAL archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church DIVISION. of .All ::laints, built in r838, on a new site, nearly a quarter of a mile from the old church, at a cost of about £3,500, is Heneage The Right Hon. Edward P.c., M.P., D.L. IIainton a structure of white brick with stone dressings, in the Gothic ball, Wragby style, consisting of chancel, large nave, south porch and a Booth by Rev. Hy. Brooke B. A. Vicarage, Lissington, Wragby lofty western tower, with four pinnacles, containing a clock Jarvis Rev. Charles Edwin M.A. Rectory, Hatton, Wragby and 6 bells : the chancel of the old church is now used as a Marshall Rev. Prebendary William Knox B.D. Rectory, mortuary chapel, and the churchyard as a cemetery: three Holton-le-Beckering, Wragby of the Early Norman arches and columns which divided the Taylor Rev. John William Vernon M.A. Vicarage, South nave from the aisle of the old church have been erected in Willingham, Wragby the grounds of Sudbrook Hall, near Lincoln: there are 400 Turnor Edmund esq. M.A., D.L. Panton ball, Wragby; & sittings. The register dates from the year 1567. The Stoke Rocbford hall, Grantbam living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Panton, Clerk to the Magistrates, Francis R. Larken, Lincoln tithe rent-charge (Wragby) £63, joint gross yearly value Petty Sessions are held the last Thursday in the month, at £soo, including 63 acres of glebe at Wragby, with residence, the Police Station at II.3o a.m. · in the gift of Edmund Turnor esq. of Panton Hall, and held The petty sessional division comprises the following places, since x882 by the Hev. Henry Holland M. A. of Trinity Col­ viz. Apley, Bardney, East & West Barkwitb, Banning­ lege, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. worth, Bullington, Brough-on-Bain, Girsley, Hatton,Gol­ In 16g7 Sir Edmund Turnor knt. founded a chapel and alms­ tbo, Hainton, Holton with Beckering, Langton, Panton, houses for six clergy widows and six lay widows or widowers Legsley, Ludford Parva, Ludford Magna, Lissington, of Wragby, and in 1708 he devised an endowment thereto ; Sotby, Snelland, East & West Torrington, Six Hills, they were rebuilt in x84o, in the Gothic style, at a cost of Btainton, Newbold, Wickenby & South Willingham

£1,950 1 out of funds accumulated from unappropriated pen­ PUBLIC EsTABLISHliiENTS :- sions: the present payments are 25s. a quarter to clergy Inland Revenue Office, Turnor Arms hotel · lV!dows and x6s. 8d. per quarter to the lay widows, in ad­ Police Station, Market Rasen road, William Wood,inspector dition to which the latter receive £5 each yearly from the Meetings of the Assessors & Collector of Income & Property interest of £r,ooo £3 per Cent. Consols, bequeathed by the Ta~~:es, held at Turnor .Arms hotel late Mrs. Yard, wite of a former vicar; a sum of £4o a PUBLIC OFFICERS :- year is also paid to the vicar. .A library and reading-room, Assessor & Collector of Property, Land & Income Tax, granted rent free by the late C. Turnor esq. for the benefit James Pringle of the working men, was established in 1856; the number Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Wragby District, of volumes is now upwards of x,5oo; it is well supported by Horncastle Union, Edmund Barry Denny L.R.C.P.Edin subscriptions and the proceeds of lectures, which are given Surveyor of Highways, Thomas Cockett during the winter months. The Thursday market is in National Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1839, by John abeyance, and there are two fairs for cattle, on the xst of Turnor esq. & Frances his sister, & the master's residP.nce, May and the 28th and 29th of September. There is a Mar­ in r84o, by Christopher Turnor esq. : the school will hold ket house, which is not now used for the purpose. .A flower 150 children; average attendance, 6o; the endowment of show and a foal show are annually held, the former in £3o yearly, formerly belonged to the now abolished Gram­ August and the latter in September. Edmund Turnor esq. mar school J.P. of Panton Hall, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Railway Station, Thomas Baggers, station master The soil is mostly heavy loam; subsoil, blue clay. The CARRIERS TO :- chief crops are wheat, beans and oats, The area is 1,594 HORNCASTLK-Cbambers, sat. returning same day acres; rateable value, £2,404; the population in x88x was LINCOLN-Chambers, mon. & fri 508. MARKET RASEN-Chambers, tues. returning same day Holland Rev. Henry M.A. Vicarage Denny Edmund Barry L.R.C.P.Edin. Kendall Moses, Turnor Arms family & Denny Edmund Barry physician & surgeon, & medical officer commercial hotel & posting house, Dix Rev. Henry Rigden [curate of Bol- & public vaccinator for Wragby dis­ good stabling, lock-up coach houses ton Beckering] drict of Horncastle union & farmer, Market place

Dove Wedd Henry Dobson Martin, farmer Maltby• Charles, shoe maker Holmes George, Bardney road Dove Charles & Son, ironmongers & iron M a wer & Sons, farmers & millers (wind) Mawer l\lrs & tin plate workers, deal~rs in hard­ & grocers Pickwell Matthew ware, agricultural implements, sew­ Phillipson Charles, .Adam & Eve com­ Spencer Fred, Beech house ing machines & fancy repository mercial hotel & posting house, livery COMMERCIAL. Dove Henry, boot maker & bait stables, brewer & farmer Allbones William, farmer Ealand Henry, bricklayer Pickering Charles, bricklayer Allis William & Robert, farmers Fanthorpe William, blacksmith Priestley Frederick, plumber Atkinson William, earthenware dealer Fenwick Jas. carpenter & wood dealer Pringle J ames, seedsman & florist, & as­ Bean Samuel, farmer, Primrose hill Goy Robert, butcher sessor & collector of property, land & Berry William John, saddler Harrison George Frederick, watch ma. income tax Blundy Caroline (Miss) & Croft Martha & newspaper reporter Robinson Isaac, cowkeeper (MISS), ladies' school Harrison William, fanner, Holrnes hill Robinson Joseph Hinds, rope maker Bradshaw John, grocer & draper Hides Ellen (Miss), dress maker Saggers Thomas, station master Bratley Amos, coal dealer, Louth road Holmes & Son, wheelwrights Spencer Fred M.R.c. v.s. veterinary surg Brothwell Mary & Son, wheelwrights Holmes George, grocer Swales .Abraham, inland revenne officer Brothwell James, saddler Hurst William, pig dealer Taylor Enoch, tailor Chambers John, carrier Ingham Mrs. dress maker Thorn John Webster, builder Cockett Thomas, grocer & draper & Johnson John Baines, blacksmith Tarry J oseph, saddler highway surveyo:t' Major John, hawker Weightman John, butcher